If you have not had a chance to see “Of Gods and Men,” the winner of all sorts of film prizes, including the Grand Prix at Cannes, you should drop everything and watch it, and all the more so when Osama bin Laden has just been murdered. Yes, I said murdered. When an unarmed civilian, criminal or not, is killed rather than captured, that would be murder. Yes I realize he is responsible for many many murders. Yes I realize that there is some justice in what happened to him. But before you decide how a Christian should feel about all that, I urge you to see this movie, a movie about French monks who decided to stay in the face of the Mujahadeen uprising and continue to serve the people of their village .......

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Shalom Crystal. Thanks for these links and thoughts. It is indeed a great movie that everyone should see and feel. Here in Jerusalem we had one premiere showing in December. Some 3/4 of the audience were monks and nuns, and that made it even more special.

Yes. That night after the movie I went out on the terrace of the Cinematheque that overlooks the Kidron Valley and the walls of the Old City and I prayed "God, let nothing like this ever be able to happen in this city, in my country!"